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Editing Your Users Profile

đź’ˇHow to Edit a User Profile on Capacity4dev

In this section, we will walk you through the process of editing your user profile on our platform. Keeping your profile up to date ensures that you can effectively engage with other community members, stay informed about relevant content, and contribute to ongoing discussions. 

➡️ Follow these simple steps to edit your user profile: 

Step 1: Access your user profile 

Step 2: Edit your user profile 

Step 3: Save your changes

Detailed steps

Step 1: Access your user profile 

Dropdown menu under “My Account” showing profile options: My Profile, Notifications, My Memberships, and Logout, alongside a user avatar.

 

➡️Once logged in, click on the “My Account” link located at the top of the page. 

➡️Then, from the dropdown menu, select "My Profile" to view your personal profile page.  

Step 2: Edit your user profile in "My settings"

User profile page showing profile photo, name, trusted user status, job title, organisation, department, and location, with a “My settings” button and navigation tabs including Overview, My Memberships, Discussions, Following, Library, Bookmarks, Network, Messages, and Stats.

 

➡️ Next, on your profile page, click the "My Settings" button located next to your profile picture.  

âś… This will take you to the page where you can update various sections of your profile, including:  

Profile Information: Modify your job title, organisation, department, organisation type, country, and languages (for EU Institution Officials, some fields are disabled and cannot be modified, as they are filled out automatically). You may also add your external LinkedIn profile.  
About Me: Write a brief description of your education, professional background,expertise, and skills, to help other community members get to know you better. 
Profile picture: Click on "Choose file" to upload a new profile picture from your computer or use the "Remove" button to delete and change your current profile picture.    
Interests: Your interests will be used to help you filter platform activity based on your specific thematic and geographic preferences. This setting is important as it determines the content displayed in your personalised feed on your homepage. 
Notifications: Stay informed about the latest updates and activities relevant to your interests. Receive by email daily, weekly, or monthly alerts for new content, comments, and other interactions within your Groups, Projects, and Resources, ensuring you never miss essential information and collaboration opportunities.

Agreements: 

a. Allow other members to send you private messages 

b. Allow non-registered visitors to view your profile on Capacity4dev.  

Step 3: Save your changes đź’ľ

➡️ after updating your profile, scroll to the bottom of the "My Settings" page and click "Save changes".  

âś… you will be redirected to your profile page, where you can review your updated information.  

 

âť” If you have any further questions, please check our FAQs below. If you need additional support, please feel free to reach out to our support team via our Contact form. 

FAQ

To allow other Capacity4dev members to contact you, please tick the box in "My Settings" page. 

“Agreements” section showing a toggle turned on for the option “I allow members to contact me through my personal contact form”.

Disclosure: Capacity4dev is a collaborative platform and members have functions and features to collaborate on our platform by using a contact form or chat. No e-mail addresses are disclosed to our community as all communication is happening through the system. 

You can easily set this up on the "My Setting" page by choosing the value "Never" for notifications. Our recommendation, however, is to set it to â€śWeekly”, so you can stay informed about recent posts. 

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Sometimes, we send emails to specific categories of members, such as Space Managers, to share updates related to their memberships and areas of interest on the platform. In addition, certain notifications are automatically sent by Capacity4dev in relation to specific actions performed by users, such as requesting to create or join a group. These automatic notifications are part of the platform’s functioning and cannot be opted out of if you are managing a Group, Project or Resource on Capacity4dev. 

If you prefer not to make your profile information publicly visible, you can choose to make it accessible only to logged-in members of the platform. To do so, go to the â€śAgreements” section when editing your profile, select â€śNo”, and save your changes. 

Profile privacy setting titled “Disclosure of my profile data” with Yes and No radio buttons, where “Yes” is selected, and explanatory text stating that choosing “Yes” makes public profile information visible on the Capacity4dev website, while choosing “No” restricts it to logged-in members.

In “My Settings”, scroll down and click “Delete Account”, then choose one of the available options and click “Confirm”. You may either: 

  • Delete your account and retain all your contributions in anonymised form, so that valuable knowledge shared on the platform is not lost; or  

  • Delete your account, including all contributions you have made.  

We recommend the first option, as it allows the knowledge you have shared on the platform to remain available. 

If you are a Space Manager, we also recommend reassigning your Space to another Capacity4dev user before deleting your account, to avoid leaving your Space without an Owner or Administrator. Otherwise, the Spaces will be automatically reassigned to the Capacity4dev Communication Team. 

Note: If you click “Confirm”, your profile will be permanently deleted and your information cannot be recovered.